Monday, November 5, 2007

Tips for Getting Paid to Complete Offers

Completing offers is one way to earn money while working from home. It is a pretty simple and straightforward method. Put your information into a form to sign up for a free offer, free trial, newsletter, coupon or website membership and get rewarded. But there are some details that you should be aware of.

Computer Requirements and SettingsUse Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox for web browsing. Systems like AOL and Netscape interfere with your IP address tracking and you may not receive credit for the offer.

Use a broadband internet connection. Dial up will be too slow to properly display many webpages.

Accept all cookies. Your browser settings need to accept all cookies to ensure the proper tracking of your offers. This setting is typically found in “Tools” then “Options.”

Make sure your antivirus AND antispyware software is up to date and running. By clicking on offers to complete you will be taken to wide range of sites that have not been checked or verified for safety.

Clean-up your computer regularly. You will be visiting a large number of websites and you do not want to bog down your computer with excess temporary files and cookies. If you are running Windows, you can click the Start Button, go to Program Files, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Clean up. This program will clean up everything for you automatically.

Additional ResourcesGetting a separate free email account is a good idea. It will help keep your work from home offer programs separate from your personal email. You are likely to get a lot of spam from completing offers.

Other TipsIf the offer is a free trial that requires a credit card it typically means you will be put on an automatic billing program if you do not cancel within the trial period. Unless you want the product or service, pay close attention to cancellation requirements.

Sometimes you must complete a form and then click through several other offers before you can finish and submit your offer. You can generally click no or skip for these additional offers, but it does add to the time it takes to finish the offer. You might not receive credit for the offer if you do not get to the confirmation screen.

Alternately, you may need to validate an offer by clicking a confirmation link in your email. Read the directions carefully to ensure you receive the proper credit for your efforts.

If you belong to more than one GPT site, keep track of the offers you complete. You can only complete an offer for an advertiser once, ever, period.

To optimize your approval rate, do not complete more than 10 offers per day. Many companies run multiple offers on multiple GPT sites at the same time and may not approve one person for completing all their offers. Multiple email addresses and clearing cookies can help too.

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